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Bedside indeed.

There are so many images of the Eames chair - why choose the one that objectifies women?

can someone explain how an image of a bikini-clad woman sells a chair?

Ditto to arza's comment. Lets keep the American Apparel style marketing off the site.

I'd buy one now.

maybe the photo is depicting a vignette... it's hot and windy in that room so she's going to undress and hang her bikini top and bottom over the back of the chair... it's all part of the nude initiation rite she must perform with the two sunglasses-clad spirits to the right of her (see them?). maybe the spirits are from an Orange County Wicca coven she's hoping to gain acceptance into?

you'd think the folks who could afford that chair wouldn't be the choice audience for such low-brow marketing schemes.

I'll take one of each!

Are you kidding me with this ad? Oh, you mean it's for a chair?

Please, don't get your knickers in a knot, folks. It looks like a photospread from a magazine, not an ad. So what would you rather see behind the chair? A nun? Or are you just hating on her impossibly plumped out lips or her ripped abs and man-hips?

Off the subject of bikini clad women, and on the subject of discount replica eames chairs (many of them) I just found this site: www.whiteonwhite.com - they have so many eames and h.miller knockoffs - and all unbelievably affordable. The LWC replica is $225 and a shell arm rocker is $145.

A big thumbs down to AT for posting such a picture on this website; a website where people come to see design images, not objectifying images of women. This is not the first time AT has posted pictures such as this, and this is not the first time people have complained. I am surprised that AT has chosen not to respect the requests of many of its readership on such a serious and sensitive matter.

Then don't look at it. Lighten up.